How are library consortia helping libraries support trusted open infrastructure? Hear from CSAL, Jisc, Lyrasis & Sikt on funding models, decision-making, strategy & lessons learned. Live Q&A.
๐๏ธ 13 May
โฐ 10 EDT | 14 UTC | 16 CEST
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Insights from stakeholder sessions by the Working Group on Sustaining Infrastructures:
๐น Sustainability & governance in practice @OpenAlex @OpenAIRE @opencitations
๐น Ecosystem initiatives @investinopen @SCOSSfunding TSOSI working on funding coordination, strategic investment & transparency
๐น Why open infrastructures must be treated as essential
๐ Read more: https://zenodo.org/records/19369910
The Working Group Sustaining Infrastructures of the Barcelona Declaration examines how open infrastructures for research information can be sustainably supported across the research ecosystem. As part of this work, the Working Group is exploring different governance approaches, sustainability models, and forms of community engagement that underpin existing infrastructures. In September and October 2025, the Working Group organized two knowledge-sharing sessions with open infrastructures (Session 1) and initiatives operating at the ecosystem level (Session 2) to discuss sustainability models and how these can be strengthened through community engagement, coordination, transparency, and strategic investment.The sessions aimed at knowledge sharing and identifying where the Barcelona Declaration community (and the Working Group in particular), can most effectively contribute in supporting signatories as they transition toward open research information.Additional materialsSession on Open Infrastructures๐ฅ๏ธ Presentations: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18187006๐ฌ Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf_5px0PjzsSession on Related Initiatives๐ฅ๏ธ Presentations: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18188254๐ฌ Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf_5px0Pjzs
Swiss academic libraries, members of the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries (CSAL), continue to be among the most consistent and reliable supporters of open science infrastructure. Once again, these institutions have committed generously to SCOSS-endorsed services, pledging โฌ120,750 for the 2024โ2026 funding cycle to three vital infrastructures from SCOSSโฆ
At a time when funding for open science is under growing pressure worldwide, with cuts and political shifts threatening the stability of the tools researchers rely on, this pledge is a welcome show of support. Three universities from Australia (Curtin University, University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales) haveโฆ
France demonsrates its support for open science infrastructure. The French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Space continues its support for open science infrastructure through its funding of four SCOSS Round 6 endorsed services: AJOL (African Journals Online), Episciences (funded through ongoing support for the Centre for Direct Scientific Communication),โฆ
Open infrastructure is sustained collectively. Collective investment and collective action is built from many individual decisions: one budget line, one policy change, one champion at a time. Our shared objective must be a strategic shift in how we value the infrastructure of Open Science. Whether you are a librarian, aโฆ
Exciting to see systemic change in action ๐ #JISC has launched a new licensing approach highlighting the importance of open research infrastructure as a cost-effective, collaborative alternative across the research lifecycle.
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